Experimental drug trials are starting in Cardiff to test out ways of treating coronavirus

Velindre Hospital in Whitchurch, Cardiff, where the trial is taking place

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A Welsh cancer hospital has started clinical trials to identify way of treating adults hospitalised with coronavirus.

They are starting at Velindre Cancer Centre in Whitchurch, Cardiff, and will test if existing or new drugs can help patients in hospital with Covid-19.

It is part of the UK-wide trial being led by Oxford University.

Called the Recovery trail – Randomised Evaluation of Covid Therapy – it will see eligible patients being randomly allocated several different treatments with each to be given in addition to the usual standard of care.

The therapies that will be tested include Lopinavir-Ritonavir (an HIV drug) or low-dose dexamethasone, or hydroxychloroquine, or azithromycin.

The "adaptive" design trail means it can test new therapies as they become available.